Hair care: which products have coconut?

17 products checked, label in hand

• 5✓ No coconut listed
• 7! Can’t be verified
• 5✕ Contains coconut

Conditioners, masks, serums and colour. These lean on fatty alcohols and conditioning agents — cetearyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, cetrimonium chloride — plus glycerin. All of them can be made from coconut or from palm, and the label doesn’t say which, so this category produces more “can’t be verified” than outright coconut.

The coconut names that turn up most

Counted across the 17 products on this page.

• Cetearyl / cetyl / stearyl alcohol (and ceteareth-, steareth-, -trimonium, -dimonium)in 7 of 17
• Glycerin / glycerolin 7 of 17
• Caprylyl / capryloyl / decyl (C8–C10 chains)in 4 of 17
• Coconut, cocos nuciferain 3 of 17
• Caprylic/capric triglyceridein 1 of 17
• Dicaprylate / dicaprate (e.g. propylene glycol dicaprylate/dicaprate)in 1 of 17

Every product we checked

Worth reading

• How to find a shampoo without coconut: what else can make foamFour ways out, and the names that only look coconut-free
• Coconut allergy and palm oil: are they related, and do you need to avoid both?Same plant family, and no reported palm oil allergy

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Always read the label on the product in your hand: formulas change. Educational only, not medical advice. Always confirm with your allergist.